Ferdinand Kolberg

Ferdinand Kolberg (born August 17, 1941 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German foundry engineer and was the managing director of the Gienanth Brothers iron foundry in Eisenberg . He has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

career

Kolberg lived with his parents and his older sister in Mülheim an der Ruhr since 1953 and completed a foundry apprenticeship at Thyssen-AG in Duisburg after completing his secondary school leaving certificate. After attending evening school, he studied engineering at the Duisburg Engineering School (Ing .) and then from 1964 to 1969 at RWTH Aachen University . In the 1970s he worked for Thyssen-Guss, first in the Ruhr area, then for a longer period as a member of the Board of Management for Technology and Sales in Brazil. From 1982 to 1987 he was plant manager at the Thyssen casting company Concordiahütte in Bendorf near Koblenz. In 1988 he took over the management of the Eisenberger Eisengießerei, which had been founded in 1753 and taken over and continued by Ludwig Gienanth in 1800 , a position he held until his retirement in 2006. Not least because of its management, the long-established company survived the structural crisis in the iron and steel industry and was even expanded by a subsidiary in England (Laycast in Sheffield in 1992) and Fronberg Guss in Fronberg (Schwandorf) in 2005 .

Voluntary work in business

In addition to his professional activity in the German Foundry Association, Kolberg has volunteered and assumed leading positions. In the Palatinate region, he was involved in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Committee for Foreign Trade and the Donnersberg Economic Forum. After retiring from active professional life, Kolberg was active in the Donnersbergkreis as a senior expert and start-up consultant. In 2006 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to business and society .

Private engagement

Kolberg was already involved in the church in his youth, a commitment that he had in retirement, e. B. continued as chairman of the friends' association of his evangelical parish in Weisenheim am Berg and in the presbytery there. He was also active in the social field in Brazil, so that a street was named after him in Matozinhos , the company's headquarters in the state of Minas Gerais . Since October 1, 2014 he has been a patient advocate at the Grünstadt District Hospital .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Closure notice, The Star, September 5, 2006
2. ↑ Beck Partner averted bankruptcy on March 31, 2005 (both accessed April 2015)
3. ↑ Kolberg near KrKhs Grünstadt ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed March 2015)  

Web links / sources

• Brief portrait at the Donnersberg Economic Forum (accessed March 2015)
• Federal Cross of Merit Ferdinand Kolberg. Press release of the Ministry, Mainz, dated December 5, 2006 (accessed March 2015)
• Gienanth brothers iron foundry